Roman Telescope Saves Fuel, Doubles Mission

Contemplate the events that might end a space mission, and you might picture something dramatic: detonation on the pad, a dead guidance system, or micrometeoroids shattering delicate solar panels. More …read more

Geothermal Cooling For New York’s Subways

You might think that if you dug some tunnels down into the ground where you could be out of the sunshine, that you might find them to be relatively cool …read more

Places To Visit: Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord

There are many benefits to spending time in the park, but perhaps few of them have a Hackaday angle. There’s a park in Germany you might want to make an …read more

The FPGA Chronicles: Exploring The Tang Nano 20K

FPGAs used to be mysterious, expensive devices, but these days you can buy surprisingly capable boards for very little money. Some years ago, I did an FPGA Bootcamp over on …read more

Hackaday Links: September 27, 2026

It isn’t quite hailing frequencies open, but researchers from Harvard claim they’ve picked up a radio signal directly from a nearby exoplanet. Before you get too excited, planets in our …read more

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Handheld Atari 2600 Packs A CRT

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By Jenny List | October 7, 2026

We covered [Nick Bild]’s mini Atari console using original devices not so long ago, and today he’s back with the same console wrapped up with a CRT as a handheld. …read more
Repairing A Couple Of Very Expensive Registered DDR5 RAM Sticks

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By Maya Posch | October 7, 2026

It’s definitely a sign of the times when repair shops get handed sticks of registered ECC DDR5 RAM by businesses to try and fix, rather than just tossing the defective …read more
2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Dungeons Of Daggorath, But Without Quite So Much Typing

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By Donald Papp | October 7, 2026

People mod games all the time, but it’s not every day someone mods Dungeons of Daggorath for the TRS-80. [Nick Bild] did exactly that, adding joystick support and a couple …read more
ESP32 As Your Raspberry Pi’s Linux Wireless Co-processor

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By Arya Voronova | October 7, 2026

A laptop with no wireless connectivity feels like a rarity – but when you shop for powerful Linux single-board computers (SBCs), it is pretty common to see one skimp on …read more
Don’t Try This At Home, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Edition

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By Tyler August | October 7, 2026

Transcranial magnetic stimulation is one of those things that seems too wacky to be true. Depression not responding to treatment? Let’s smack you upside the head with strong magnetic fields! …read more
The Commodore 64 Keyboard Font, For Everyone

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By Jenny List | October 7, 2026

There are some classic fonts which appeared in one place and became almost iconic, yet never made it into the digital age. The font on the Commodore 64 keyboard for …read more
Don’t Worry, This R/C Airship Is Supposed To Be On Fire

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By Tyler August | October 6, 2026

We’ve had a lot of flying hacks here over the years, and that includes just about any way to get airborne you can think of — but very few of …read more

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